[Cialug] Win XP question

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

He's not the only one fighting stupid XP error messages. Friggin lexmark
printer driver blew up my print spooling service. Like everthing
Windows, uninstalling stuff leaves remants all over the place and just
makes a huge mess. If my customers didn't use windows, I'd never use one
again!!!

:) Dave

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 08:32, Jeff Davis wrote:
> Come on now Kevin...
> Bill knows you really DO want to
> have that displayed on the screen.
> You just THINK you don't.
> 
> 
> 
> Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> > I think this is true; it can't be done. 
> > I don't remember ever seeing anything related this in group policies. I
> > was looking for a hack of some sort here. Maybe, some regedit magic I 
> > haven't thought of, etc. This seems like an such an obvious feature, 
> > I'm a little surprised it isn't there. It should look like this:
> > 
> > When logged in as Administrator when you open the "Safely Remove 
> > Hardware" window you get the option to choose a device and "hide" 
> > from other users. 
> > 
> > Oh, well. It's not that important so I'll move on.
> > Thanks for the thoughts.
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:37 -0600, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > 
> >>You can hide the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon,
> >>but I don't think you can prevent something from
> >>being displayed in the list.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>>Anyone know who to hide a piece of hardware, so that
> >>>it does not how in that "Safely Remove Hardware" list?
> >>>I'm using a second SATA drive for storage and don't want a user
> >>>to inadvertently disable it; which will happen I've done it myself
> >>>while remove a usb thumb drive. I don't want to hide the whole
> >>>thing; just the one drive. I've Google, but come up empty.
> >>>
> >>><!-- This is a Linux list so, humor at my expense here. -->
> >>>
> >>>
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